Truthtellers Exhibition

Winter Solstice Handshake event with Rene Yung and Ashima Kaul.
Saturday, December 21st, 2–4 PM
SFArtsED gallery at 1275 Minnesota Street.

Marking the divide between the shortest day of the year and the return of light, artist Rene Yung will be in conversation with Ashima Kaul, peacebuilding expert, and founder/director of Yakjah Reconciliation and Development Network, a non-profit youth and women-led social innovation for peacebuilding. Their discussion will cover cross-cultural takes on the significance of the Winter Solstice in Chinese Taoism, Kashmiri culture, and beyond, addressing various forms of polarization occurring in our world today. The event will open and close with prompt-based handshake activities as part of Rene Yung’s installation “Between You and Me” which is featured in the Truthtellers exhibition currently on view in the gallery.

Yung’s installation “Between You and Me” is a growing library of handshakes. Guests are invited to shake hands across a dividing line, holding in the palms of their hands a malleable piece of clay which captures the imprint of their handshake. This imprint, unique to each handshake, is the three-dimensional shape of a moment shared between two people in the basic gesture of greeting and symbolic trust. 

To learn more about Yakjah Reconciliation

 

About the Artist:

Rene Yung is an internationally exhibiting artist, designer, writer and thinker, whose poetic and incisive works fluidly cross disciplines to address social and cultural issues in the globalized environment. She develops innovative forms of civic engagement that connect people, history, and place, to reveal overlooked patterns and articulate hidden narratives. Her work has been exhibited at international venues including TransCulture, part of the 46th Venice Biennale; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She has created extensive public projects for national institutions including the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, the City of Oakland Cultural Arts and Marketing Division, and the Goldman Institute on Aging, San Francisco. Yung is the recipient of many grant awards, including from the San Francisco Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, the California Council on the Humanities, and the Center for Cultural Innovation.

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